MUMBAI (TIP): Reserve Bank of India has said that the country will soon have its first payment bank as prescribed by a committee headed by Nachiket Mor to look into financial inclusion. Speaking at a […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): With the new Indian government showing signs of economic reforms and brings in transparency in governance, the World Bank feels that the world’s third-largest economy could achieve a growth rate of 5.5 […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Voices against the government plan to slap antidumping duty on solar panels are getting stronger with Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari asking his commerce counterpart to drop the proposal as it would ‘escalate’ […]
AMRITSAR (TIP): Aaghaz-e-Dosti, a joint body comprising India-based Mission Bharatiyam and Pakistan-based The Catalyst, has released a list of Pakistani prisoners languishing in Indian jails on public domain. It will also release a list of […]
NAVI MUMBAI (TIP): The AAP’s state convener Anjali Damania quit the party on June 5 morning, but retracted her resignation in the evening after it convinced her to do so. Her leaked resignation letter exposes […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): China underestimated its growing defence budget by nearly 20% with its spending likely nearing $145 billion last year, the Pentagon has said. In an annual report required by Congress, the Pentagon said yesterday […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lanka on Thursday reacted strongly against the genocide remarks made by Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa against the country over the Tamil issue and said it will make formal objections to […]
An inner cry of a Dalit from the heartland of India Why I am asked about my caste when I go to the police? Am I not a citizen of India?” The father of one […]
Situated on the banks of the river Cauvery,Tiruchirappalli, the forth largest city in the state was a citadel of the early Cholas which later fell to the Pallavas. But the Pallavas never really managed to […]
For adversaries, habituated to passive and defensive responses to deliberate provocations, the likelihood of a less tolerant Indian response under a Modi-led government might induce rethinking on their part about the price they may have […]
MUMBAI (TIP)The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), decided to limit access to export credit refinance while compensating fully with a commensurate expansion of the market’s access to liquidity through a special term repo facility from […]
The author pays a tribute to a former Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi, on his 23rd death anniversary. Rajiv Gandhi was killed by LTTE on May 21, 1991 at Sriperumbudur, near Chennai, in Tamil […]
Chennai Super Kings and wine have one thing in common. Both get better with the passage of time. After having suffered a three-match losing streak just before the play-offs, CSK have upped the tempo at […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): With the Gandhi family out of power, son-in-law Robert Vadra may lose his exalted exemptfrom- frisking-at-airports status. After taking over as aviation minister of May 30 , Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati said […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Professor P. Somasundaran has been appointed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. to serve as a member of its Board of Scientific Counselors and to chair the ‘combined BOSC Subcommittees for Chemical […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Shashikant Patel and Gopi Udeshi with the cooperation and voluntary participation from the community members, organized Mother’s Day celebrations at the local Shri Saneeswara Temple in Bellerose Terrace on May 7. Those […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The Nargis Dutt Memorial Cancer Foundation (NDMF), a pre-eminent non-profit that strives to improve and upgrade cancer treatment and care in India, has a new President. The election of Hussain Baqueri as […]
NEW YORK (TIP): To commemorate the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers on 29 May, the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations hosted a somber function for all the recipients of the 106 […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The Maharashtra Tourism sponsored Diwali will be celebrated at Times Square on September 20, 2014. This announcement was made at a press conference held at the Consulate General of India, May 22. […]
“Given the magnitude of what the Army has achieved over the last thirty years in securing not just the Glacier but also the Saltoro, we need to bury the issue once and for all. If […]
Despite reservations in some circles, most Pakistanis welcomed Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif’s decision to attend Mr Narendra Modi’s swearing-in as the new PM of India at the latter’s invitation. Although similar invitations were extended […]
BEIJING (TIP): Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told PM Modi that China was willing to enhance exchanges in the “humanistic field” and other areas, and look for “more converging points of interest” to jointly contribute to […]
BEIJING (TIP): China has set a target of producing two million extra babies annually, health officials said on May 29. This will mean an 11% jump in the country’s birthrate. The target is part of […]
Photo caption: “We should remove fears and misgivings about each other……..We should rid the region of insecurity and instability”, said Nawaz Sharif . Nawaz Sharif’s India trip for the inauguration of Narendra Modi was in […]
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